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These new books will be on display in the Hoyle Building Library Area during September. You are welcome to have a look at them, but please don't take them away! There is a clipboard underneath the display where you can reserve books and they will be delivered to you at the end of the month.

The IoA Publications database has been updated to June 2014. The database contains bibiliographic references to publications (both refereed and non-refereed) which have at least one IoA affiliated author. The database can be accessed here: IoA Publications Database

New month: new books! These new books will be on display in the Hoyle Building Library Area during August. You are welcome to have a look at them, but please don't take them away! There is a clipboard underneath the display where you can reserve books and they will be delivered to you at the end of the month.

These new books will be on display in the Hoyle Building Library Area during July. You are welcome to have a look at them, but please don't take them away! There is a clipboard underneath the display where you can reserve books and they will be delivered to you at the end of the month.

The American Astronomical Society (AAS)and IOP Publishing have announced that from 2015 all AAS research journals published with IOP will become electronic only and will no longer print paper editions. This affects the Astronomical Journal (AJ) and the Astrophysical Journal (ApJ), Astrophysical Journal Letters (ApJL), and Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series (ApJS).

We have just uploaded a scan to the University of Cambridge online repository. The scan is of the 'new' constellations invented by French astronomer Nicolas Louis de La Caille (1713-1762). After intensive observations at the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, La Caille was able to draw up a detailed map of the Southern sky. Because this area of the celestial sphere had not been accessible to ancient Greek astronomers, the 'classical' constellations, used by astronomers since antiquity did not go that far south. Although, Dutch navigators had formed so